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“This lovely picture of “Die Hexe von Endor” [The Witch of...
“This lovely picture of “Die Hexe von Endor” [The Witch of Endor] is by Kunz Meyer-Waldeck, a German artist who lived to be almost one hundred (b.1859 in Mitau, d.1953 in Neuburg). The printer, Richard...
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Figures de la Bible. Illustrated by Gerard Hoet, and others....
Figures de la Bible. Illustrated by Gerard Hoet, and others. Published by P. de Hondt in The Hague (La Haye). 1728. Wish I had time for the whole collection, the images are lovely.
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euclase: The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan,...
euclase: The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan, William Blake, c. 1805, tempera on canvas
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The first painting ever that I have seen which tries to capture...
The first painting ever that I have seen which tries to capture something about this experience…. The Orchestra Pit, Old Proctor’s Fifth Avenue Theatre, Everett Shinn. American, ( 1876 – 1953 )
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poboh: Hésiode et la muse, 1891, Gustave Moreau.
poboh: Hésiode et la muse, 1891, Gustave Moreau.
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Salvador Dali painting Amanda Lear, Spain, 1971. Photograph by...
Salvador Dali painting Amanda Lear, Spain, 1971. Photograph by Yul Brynner. Didn’t know that Yul Brynner was a photographer, the site contains extensive and good samples of his work.
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mediumaevum: Alain Chartier (c. 1385 – 1430) was...
mediumaevum: Alain Chartier (c. 1385 – 1430) was a French poet and political writer. Alain studied, as his elder brother had done, at the University of Paris. His earliest poem is the Livre des quatre...
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Moche Indian skull buried with a gold mask, Chiclayo,...
Moche Indian skull buried with a gold mask, Chiclayo, Peru; photo by Bill Ballenberg
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Hadza dance…Tanzania. When a person dies he is immediately...
Hadza dance…Tanzania. When a person dies he is immediately buried in a shallow grave. The men dig, and inter the corpse on its side. They dampen and stamp the clay soil, which hardens, preventing...
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Nabodinus, the last king of Babylonia, defeated by Cyrus in -...
Nabodinus, the last king of Babylonia, defeated by Cyrus in - 539.
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Stone prism of Esarhaddon at British Museum. What is a stone...
Stone prism of Esarhaddon at British Museum. What is a stone prism? What is it used for? check first, blog later, says I (to myself): This small stone monument records the restoration of the walls and...
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Bronze Alexander. British Museum. Don’t know the date.
Bronze Alexander. British Museum. Don’t know the date.
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50watts: New on 50 Watts: Easter at Pascua Village (2 posts in...
50watts: New on 50 Watts: Easter at Pascua Village (2 posts in 2 days, and on the weekend no less…can you tell I bought a new scanner?)
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missfolly: Janelle and the Volume of Treasures, by Sir William...
missfolly: Janelle and the Volume of Treasures, by Sir William Russell Flint, 1960 nice take on “women and books” (dare one say “bovaryism”…) Wikipedia mentions: “a perceived crassness in his...
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amare-habeo: Edgar Degas - Young Woman with Ibis, 1860-62 The...
amare-habeo: Edgar Degas - Young Woman with Ibis, 1860-62 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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2headedsnake: Aydin Aghdashloo Aydin Aghdashloo born October...
2headedsnake: Aydin Aghdashloo Aydin Aghdashloo born October 30, 1940 in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian painter, author, art critic, art historian and graphic designer.[1] He currently lives in Tehran,...
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China and UK strike space deal
China and UK strike space deal: verbalresistance: Chinese and UK companies have agreed a deal that will result in three high-resolution Earth observation spacecraft being built to map China’s...
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